Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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